I did this pair of seminars comparing two controversial giants of moral philosophy, followed by a Q&A. My presentation is in English, after the introduction in Spanish by María Marty. Hosted by the Ayn Rand Center Latin America.
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“La Inferioridad Moral del Posmodernismo.” Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. ¿Estamos luchando contra los posmodernistas con una mano atada a la espalda? Traducido al Español por Fermin Elizalde, 2019. Para más artículos en español sobre Educación y Filosofía: https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/ English Original version: The Spectator. Also Portuguese translation and Open College audio version.
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James Lindsay and I focus on the influential Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose anti-Enlightenment ideology is very much in fashion again after the disasters of Marxist socialism in the 20th century. Bad ideas don’t go away after failure — they get repackaged and re-introduced in other guises. Discussion hosted by Michael O’Fallon. From the description: When you
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The cartoon is politically correct. Benito Mussolini on his political roots: “It was inevitable that I should become a Socialist ultra, a Blanquist, indeed a communist. I carried about a medallion with Marx’s head on it in my pocket.” (Source: 1932 interview with biographer Emil Ludwig.) And then Mussolini’s predictions for the future: “it may
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¿Por Qué Los Posmodernos Entrenan—No Educan—Activistas? Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. He aquí por qué adoctrinar a los niños tiene mucho sentido para los posmodernistas. Traducido al Español por Fermin Elizalde, 2019. [PDF] Para más artículos en español sobre Educación y Filosofía: https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/ English, original article: “Why Postmoderns Train—Not Educate—Activists,” James G. Martin Center
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Coming in August 2021. “In this small but powerful book you will discover: * how modernist reduction led to postmodern nihilism; * why postmodern aesthetics is self-defeating; * how understanding this enables to us to unseat it and replace it with meaningful art; * how good aesthetics leads to flourishing ends; * and how being
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Educación Liberal y Sus Críticas Posmodernas Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Es una obviedad decir que la educación está politizada. Sin embargo, mi objetivo aquí es mostrar que las batallas politizadas por la educación no se tratan principalmente de política sino de filosofía. Las batallas políticas toman temperatura, no sólo porque es alto lo
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Deb FIllman long-form interviewed me for The Reason We Learn. Topics (with timestamps): 00:00 Preamble 01:49 Introduction 02:01 Global Problems are Too Big for Children 06:29 Intentional Indoctrination? 07:43 Is the current educational crisis philosophical? 09:48 What is it to be a human being? 11:04 The conflict of visions 16:28 How would you describe the
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In this unit of the Atlas Intellectuals course on Objectivity we feature our means to understand reality, Reason. View the video short, Draw My Life: Reason. What is your most important device? It’s not made of silicon, it’s not your smartphone or your laptop. It’s made of neurons and lies between your ears — your
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A striking line from German-American historian Walter Laqueur on early 20th-century transformation of the arts: “The painters were fascinated by ugliness; the composers threw harmony overboard, gradually moving towards dissonance; the poets and playwrights were preoccupied with the madness of great cities, parenticide and rats emerging from rotting corpses.” (Laqueur, Walter. Weimar: A Cultural History,
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